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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 1-3
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, The Preface or Introduction, in the first, second, and third Verses of this Chapter.
Secondly, The Speech it self, to the end of the thirty-ninth Chapter.
Thirdly, Gods demand of an Answer, or that Job should give him an account of himself, or of what he had said at the beginning of the fortieth Chapter.
The words under present consideration are a Preface or Introduction, leading to the whole business, and in them we may consider three things.
First, The Historians transition, or, an Historical transition, (vers. 1.) Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirl-wind, and said. This the Historian or Pen-man of this Book inserts to connect the matter of this Chapter with that which went before; he connects the discourse of Elihu, which ended at the thirty-seventh Chapter, with the discourse of God at the beginning of this: Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirl-wind, and said.